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he was invited by house minority leader nancy pelosi and he described her as his best frenemy. going there in character, referring to bill o'reilly as papa bear and he got a standing ovation of those enthralled with the performance and he did have a few serious things to say. his sister is running for the house in the state of south carolina. he said that she's going to win and she would be great and he asked assistant leader who's in the democratic house leadership of south carolina to endorse his sister. mr. clyburn was not ready to give that endorsement off the bat but a spirited moment that nancy pelosi really pulled out of the back pocket. no one was expecting him to show up. >> that's pretty good. back to former president bill clinton warning democrats to pivot from a defensive footing against republicans. what else did he warn of? >> it was interesting, tamron. he really spoke about how democrats need to be the party with the vision, especially on the idea of a budget. the senate democrats not passed a budget for some years and bill clinton said, look, go out there. tell
he was invited by house minority leader nancy pelosi and he described her as his best frenemy. going there in character, referring to bill o'reilly as papa bear and he got a standing ovation of those enthralled with the performance and he did have a few serious things to say. his sister is running for the house in the state of south carolina. he said that she's going to win and she would be great and he asked assistant leader who's in the democratic house leadership of south carolina to endorse...
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as a biproduct of that, i would suspect that nancy pelosi is going to be speaker again pretty soon. all right? >> sounded like a raucous reaction. what was the energy like in the room? and what does it mean for the president to say he's going out there and do several fundraisers for democrats. this year. >> well, we were very excited to hear that the president is going to be with us as we head toward the 2014 elections. but we were just depending on the energy in the room. we also have a plan that was very detailed and presented to us on how we're going to get from here to there. to put the gavel in nancy pelosi's plan, clearly the president will have a busy schedule. >> thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. coming up, the question everyone is talking about. it's tough, it's rude, but it's real. is chris christie too overweight to be president? and is that the sound of a knockout punch? karl rove is down and out. the tea party monster can't be controlled. plus, to kill or not to kill. the hot debate over drones and presidential power is a tough one. my commentary ahead
as a biproduct of that, i would suspect that nancy pelosi is going to be speaker again pretty soon. all right? >> sounded like a raucous reaction. what was the energy like in the room? and what does it mean for the president to say he's going out there and do several fundraisers for democrats. this year. >> well, we were very excited to hear that the president is going to be with us as we head toward the 2014 elections. but we were just depending on the energy in the room. we also...
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my account got hijacked or -- and clearly, you know, he was lying to nancy pelosi. he was lying to the colleagues. and i think that's why he didn't have anyone defending him when he went down. >> right. >> i wonder what you make of new jersey senator menendez. nobody know what is to make of the story. there's two parts. whole allegation of prostitution. i have no idea what's going on there but a top donor in florida, his office was raided by the fbi last week. this guy under investigation for something and now we know that menendez made calls about medicare payments to this doctor. he is a doctor. medicare -- he made calls to medicare to try to get more reimbursement i think for this doctor. was he leaning on the feds, more than that? there's controversy for menendez and how do you think he's handled it so far and what do you think he should be doing? >> i think he's handled it pretty poorly. another aspect is the plane trips that he took down to the dominican republic on the private plane of the doctor in question. i think the plane trips cost nearly $60,000. >> ri
my account got hijacked or -- and clearly, you know, he was lying to nancy pelosi. he was lying to the colleagues. and i think that's why he didn't have anyone defending him when he went down. >> right. >> i wonder what you make of new jersey senator menendez. nobody know what is to make of the story. there's two parts. whole allegation of prostitution. i have no idea what's going on there but a top donor in florida, his office was raided by the fbi last week. this guy under...
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>> i think a lot of americans do know that. >> why doesn't nancy pelosi? >> look, i think there's obviously intransigence on both sides on this issue. i think that mark's point is right, and i think your point is right also. >> okay, harold ford jr. give us three points why everybody's right and why you live in tennessee and the hamptons. >> and in comparison wean me and harold ford jr., i consider it a great compliment. >> i love harold. for three reasons. >> what i think cantor's doing that's smart here is that there's -- there is actually i think a lot of distance between where the president is and where what the emerging line of democrats in congress is. this is something we'll see over the next four years. there's going to be a divergence of interest between what the president wants. mika talks about the balanced approach. his answer is not let's just raise taxes again. his answer is we need to do tax reform and some spending cuts. democrats are now getting off on this position where they're saying no, there's not a spending problem. you're not hearin
>> i think a lot of americans do know that. >> why doesn't nancy pelosi? >> look, i think there's obviously intransigence on both sides on this issue. i think that mark's point is right, and i think your point is right also. >> okay, harold ford jr. give us three points why everybody's right and why you live in tennessee and the hamptons. >> and in comparison wean me and harold ford jr., i consider it a great compliment. >> i love harold. for three reasons....
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nancy pelosi has some amount. she's not wielding the speaker's gavel, but she is not someone to be marginalized. >> i covered the health care law in 2009 and 2010, and she was sort of masterful in terms of eating her conference together on extraordinarily divisive issue, but the message is that, you know, vice president biden, that obama delivered yesterday at the retreat was a political message. it was -- this is going to be tough, but you gee have to stick together. the politics on gun control, in particular, is not what it was in 1994, and you need to sort of rethink the way these politics are and really buck up and i think it was speaking directly to the fact that there are a lot of regional differences in the democratic caucus, but if they stick together, they may be able to do something. >> let's be clear. the president is saying pretty soon. that wasn't a prediction. that was a punt. pretty soon in political years doesn't mean anything. that means actually that he doesn't think they're going to win it in tw
nancy pelosi has some amount. she's not wielding the speaker's gavel, but she is not someone to be marginalized. >> i covered the health care law in 2009 and 2010, and she was sort of masterful in terms of eating her conference together on extraordinarily divisive issue, but the message is that, you know, vice president biden, that obama delivered yesterday at the retreat was a political message. it was -- this is going to be tough, but you gee have to stick together. the politics on gun...
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earlier today they had stephen colbert having an interview with nancy pelosi. so good guest list that they've had there at the caucus event in leesburg, virginia. >>> the other big story that we've been following is from the west coast. it's getting more incredible by the moem. the big bear ski resort outside of l.a. is now the epicenter for the search for this former sharpshooter wanted for multiple homicides. 33-year-old christopher dorner murdered three people, including a cop and the daughter of a former police captain. and then in a disturbing manifesto published on facebook, he calls members of law enforcement high-value targets and addresses random thoughts to people like hillary clinton and wayne lapierre. with me now, we have miguel almageur. i want to start with you, miguel. where are we? >> christopher dorner's vehicle was found in big bear, three hours outside of los angeles. that is where a lot of police activity is going on. certainly not the only police activity but officers are focused in that snowy mountain region three hours outside of los ang
earlier today they had stephen colbert having an interview with nancy pelosi. so good guest list that they've had there at the caucus event in leesburg, virginia. >>> the other big story that we've been following is from the west coast. it's getting more incredible by the moem. the big bear ski resort outside of l.a. is now the epicenter for the search for this former sharpshooter wanted for multiple homicides. 33-year-old christopher dorner murdered three people, including a cop and...
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. >> and basically hand power to nancy pelosi. >> again. that has been the precedent. >> governor, a lot of talk -- there's been a lot of talk about defense cuts, which certainly are half of the sequester. there are other programs being cut. 9.4% to unemployment benefits, 600,000 children and women lose food aid, 10,000 teachers fired. they're trying to emerge from the rock of being unsympathetic to the working poor, the middle class. you have these sequester cuts take place that undermines any argument. >> i depart from democratic orthodoxy in this one. i so bad want to cut all the fat out of the pentagon that i'm willing to do this. it's terrible. i hope we can restore some of the things. 2% medicaid cuts don't have any effect on patient care whatsoever. it is true that there are some bad cuts in there from a democratic point of view. we are never again going to get a chance to cut the pentagon back from where it's been. pentagon hasn't had any significant cuts for 30 years. a lot of money that's going to be cut is money that was not aske
. >> and basically hand power to nancy pelosi. >> again. that has been the precedent. >> governor, a lot of talk -- there's been a lot of talk about defense cuts, which certainly are half of the sequester. there are other programs being cut. 9.4% to unemployment benefits, 600,000 children and women lose food aid, 10,000 teachers fired. they're trying to emerge from the rock of being unsympathetic to the working poor, the middle class. you have these sequester cuts take place...
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i love nancy pelosi. a very big round of applause. love nancy pelosi. also, she just generates good-looking grandbabies. they're all so handsome and sharp and beautiful. to steny hoyer and jim cli burn and javier, and thank you so much for the great work that you guys are doing each and every day. and to steve israel who worked tirelessly to bring on 49 new outstanding members of this caucus, i am -- i am looking forward to spending time with all 49 of you, and hopefully we'll be seeing you over at the white house at various events, but obviously i know that you came here to get something done. i am looking forward to working with you every single day to make sure we're doing right by the people who sent us here. now, i actually just changed the format here. i called an audible. originally the way this was scheduled is i was just going to talk, and then i was going to shake some hands, and i thought since this is not a shy bunch, it might make sense for me to take some questions and some add vishgs i'm sure, you guys have for me. so what i'm going to do
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. >> so on the other side of things we have nancy pelosi saying there aren't spending problems. where is the middle ground? >> the middle ground is you have to deal with this the way that you and i would deal with it at home. you can't do something for two months or five months or six months. you have to look out over ten years. that's why simpson bowles, you pick one. the alternative minimum fix, if you accommodate them in a thoughtful plan. sadly what congress and the president has looked at rosily is this month it's taxes on rich people, next month it's sequestration. it's not a way to do business. >> steve latourette, thank you for your time. >>> still ahead, we continue to monitor the big news coming from italy. who tops the list of those who could be the next pope? >>> plus we'll have reaction from clergy here in the united states. >>> and this afternoon congress will once again take up the violence against women act. congresswoman gwen moore joins me to talk about what made this not so controversial legislation political incendiary. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop ] [ male
. >> so on the other side of things we have nancy pelosi saying there aren't spending problems. where is the middle ground? >> the middle ground is you have to deal with this the way that you and i would deal with it at home. you can't do something for two months or five months or six months. you have to look out over ten years. that's why simpson bowles, you pick one. the alternative minimum fix, if you accommodate them in a thoughtful plan. sadly what congress and the president...
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one thing that's important about big business and their support for immigration, one thing that nancy pelosi likes to tell and one thing i've seen personally on dlil, you'll get some of these republican businessmen from central part of california, arizona, texas, florida, and they all come here and say, hey, we need to fix this. at least for guest workers. if you take away these immigrants, as you have seen in alabama that had a very strict immigrant law, the crop product gets killed and profits go down. >> that could also be used as an umbrella to get some of the raucus members of house in line, and so far it's not a humanistic article or about the other. it's about cold, hard cash. look, keep your boat shoes firmly planted many the ground, because we're going to try and get you to talk to us about gun reform after the break. >> indeed. >> and after we come back, doubts grow about the possibility of getting an assault weapons ban passed in congress, but you would not know that from listening to president obama. we will examine the 1994 law and the case for a new legislative fight nex
one thing that's important about big business and their support for immigration, one thing that nancy pelosi likes to tell and one thing i've seen personally on dlil, you'll get some of these republican businessmen from central part of california, arizona, texas, florida, and they all come here and say, hey, we need to fix this. at least for guest workers. if you take away these immigrants, as you have seen in alabama that had a very strict immigrant law, the crop product gets killed and...
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pelosi is going to be speaker again pretty soon. thank you, everybody. god bless you. thank you. >> president obama completing his statement to the house democrats, and right now on "draen mitchell reports" drone wars coming up on the eve of john brennan's cia hearing. the white house relents and turns over its secret memo. >> every american has the right to know when their government believes it's allowed to kill them. this idea that security and liberty are mutually exclusive, that you can have only one or the other is something i reject. >> but what about john brennan's answers on torture and secret leak investigations? the defense department on defense. the pentagon's top brass pushed back on questions about the military response in benghazi. >> are you surprised that the president of the united states never called you secretary panetta, and says how is it going? >> you know, normally in these situations -- >> did he know the level of threat that -- >> let me finish the answer. we were deploying the forces. he knew we were deplo
pelosi is going to be speaker again pretty soon. thank you, everybody. god bless you. thank you. >> president obama completing his statement to the house democrats, and right now on "draen mitchell reports" drone wars coming up on the eve of john brennan's cia hearing. the white house relents and turns over its secret memo. >> every american has the right to know when their government believes it's allowed to kill them. this idea that security and liberty are mutually...
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pelosi and steny hoyer gone down the line of the united states does not have a spending problem. the president should i've heard say we do have a problem but we can do things in a bipartisan manner, whether it's i put forward a change cpi in exchange for some closing tax loopholes and for the president to be taken seriously by the country there should be acknowledgment of a spending problem going on throughout the united states coming to the long-term future entitlement programs. lastly, president obama well served to make the point on numbers. 11 million undocumented folks in the country. what would it take to get them in line and have a negative birthrate like that in europe without this workforce here in the united states and many big business folks and republicans from texas and florida here in the capitol they want. that message probably can't go wrong on that especially for folks here on capitol hill. >> but luke, on your spending problem point, i thought according to republicans it's the president when's behind the sequester cuts, he is mr. austerity. that's not an issue.
pelosi and steny hoyer gone down the line of the united states does not have a spending problem. the president should i've heard say we do have a problem but we can do things in a bipartisan manner, whether it's i put forward a change cpi in exchange for some closing tax loopholes and for the president to be taken seriously by the country there should be acknowledgment of a spending problem going on throughout the united states coming to the long-term future entitlement programs. lastly,...
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they obviously don't see it the way nancy pelosi does. >> i think nancy pelosi to a degree is correct. she says washington does not have a spending problem and to a degree she's right. they have a spending addiction. she says it's education, no. almost everything, the money is pouring out from almost every direction across the country. you've got the green jobs being created, about $575,000 per job created and an $838 billion stimulus that stimulated nothing. 7-point #% unemployment. we have obamacare coming down the pike at $2.5 trillion. so this is spending that didn't have to happen. nancy pelosi and barak obama pushed this through and here we are paying for this. this will be our fifth year most likely with deficits above $1 trillion. >> gretchen: the interesting thing about education spending is that i think most americans would be in favor of putting more money into educating their children if the results proved that we're actually becoming smarter as a society. but we're not. we spend more on education and the kids are doing worse. >> it is very paradoxical. we're spending more
they obviously don't see it the way nancy pelosi does. >> i think nancy pelosi to a degree is correct. she says washington does not have a spending problem and to a degree she's right. they have a spending addiction. she says it's education, no. almost everything, the money is pouring out from almost every direction across the country. you've got the green jobs being created, about $575,000 per job created and an $838 billion stimulus that stimulated nothing. 7-point #% unemployment. we...
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stephen colbert is speaking to the caucus thanks to an invite from nancy pelosi. after his comedy routine, pelosi will interview colbert in front of the house democrats. a spokesman said they assume this is colbert's attempt at a little bi-partisan. bill clinton will speak in front of the caucus today before they wrap up their retreat for the weekend. more "bill press" is coming up after the break. stay with us. [ music ] what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry university we're teaming up with companies like cisco to help make sure everyone's ready with the know how we need for a new tomorrow. [ male announcer ] make sure america's ready. make sure you're ready. at devry.edu. ♪ ♪ [ music ] >> broadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv this is "the bill press show." >> the big blizzard, some people are calling it -- we are not going to use that name. it's the big blizzard headed for the northeast united stat
stephen colbert is speaking to the caucus thanks to an invite from nancy pelosi. after his comedy routine, pelosi will interview colbert in front of the house democrats. a spokesman said they assume this is colbert's attempt at a little bi-partisan. bill clinton will speak in front of the caucus today before they wrap up their retreat for the weekend. more "bill press" is coming up after the break. stay with us. [ music ] what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new...
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>> guest: nancy pelosi is bringing a fourth grader who was at the newtown elementary school when the shooting occurred, and a number of lawmakers are bringing people from newtown. so there is a definite focus from the congressional democrats, at least, on the gun control proposals that the president and the democrats are putting forward. >> host: and, anita kumar. >> guest: yeah. they haven't announced, obviously, people always sit with the first lady. they haven't announced the full list, but we've started to hear some of the names and, again, there will be emphasis on gun victims. the parents of the 15-year-old girl, teenage girl that was killed in chicago, i think that was about a week ago, they will be joining the first lady, um, just to refresh people's memory, she was killed -- it was just, she lived about a mile from the obamas' house there, and she was killed in just random gunfire. >> host: how much do the cameras show us, anita? >> guest: i think the spotlight's really on these people. the president often mentions them in his speech, and so i think the spotlight's really on
>> guest: nancy pelosi is bringing a fourth grader who was at the newtown elementary school when the shooting occurred, and a number of lawmakers are bringing people from newtown. so there is a definite focus from the congressional democrats, at least, on the gun control proposals that the president and the democrats are putting forward. >> host: and, anita kumar. >> guest: yeah. they haven't announced, obviously, people always sit with the first lady. they haven't announced...